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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAKOB SCIllllID, OF 'BASLE, SlVlTZERLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE SOCIETY OF-CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN BASLE, OF SAME PLACE.

BLUE-BLACK DISAZO DYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,410, dated March31, 1896. Application filed September 5,1895. Serial No. 561,576.(Specimen) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAKOB SCHMID, a citizen of Switzerland, residing atBasle, Switzerland, have invented new and useful Improvements in theProduction of Blue-Black Disazo Coloring-lvlatters, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to the production of new asymmetrical disazocoloring-matters derived from naphthalenediamindisulfo acid 1.8.3. 6 onemolecular proportion of paranitrodiazobenzene and one molecularproportion of another diazo compound. The process may be advantageouslyeffected in this manner: that the naphthalenediamindisulfo-acid is firstcombined in a cooled aqueous solution with a diazo compound containingacetic acid or an alkali. The thus-formed mono-azo dyes having theproperty of being combined with a further equivalent of a diazocompound, are transformed into valuable blue-black asymmetrical disazodyes by the action of paranitrodiazobenzene. The order in which thediazo compounds are combined with naphthalenediamindisulfo-acid may bevaried in general without altering the result.

In carrying out my invention I proceed, for instance, as follows:

First Example: The diazo compound resulting from 9.3 kilos of anilin ismixed with thirty-two kilos of naphtha]enediamindisulfoacid 1.8.3.6containing an excess of acetate of soda. Into the solution of themono-azo dye which hereby results a solution of paranitrodiazobenzene,resulting from seven kilos of paranitroanalin in the usual way, isadded. The brown solution turns into violet black, and after having beenagitated during twelve hours the formation of the new disazocoloring-matter is terminated. It is isolated by addition of commonsalt, filtered, pressed, and dried. It dyes a deep black on wool.Analogous results are obtained if, instead of analin, the diazoderivatives of toluidin, nitrotoluidin, naphthylamin, or the sulfo orcarboxylic acids of these bodies are used, or if thenaphthalenediamindisulfo-acid is first combined with one equivalent ofparanitrodiazobenzene, and if for the second combination the diazotizedsulfo derivatives of analin, toluidiu, and naphthylamin are used.

Second Example: 13.8 kilos of paranitroanilin are diazotized with sevenkilos of sodium nitrite in the usual manner, and the resulting diazosolution is mixed with a solution of thirty-two kilos ofnaphthalenediamindisulfo-acid 1.8.3.6 containing sodium acetate inexcess. After allowing to stand during several hours the red-violetsolution of the mono-azo coloring-matter is mixed withparadiazobenzenesulfo-acid resulting from 19.5 kilos of soda salt ofsulfanilic acid. The red- Violet solution turns by and by into blueviolet, and after agitating during twelve hours the combination iscomplete. The mass is heated to 80 centigrade, and the coloringmatter isprecipitated-with common salt, filtered, pressed, and dried.

The above-described new disazo coloringmatters, corresponding to thegeneral formula:

SO Na SO Na,

(where R represents the radicle of an anilin, toluidiu, or naphthylaminderivative,) form black powders of a metallic luster, easily solublein'water with a dark-violet to dark-blue coloration, and produce 011wool in an acid bath or on a mordant of a chrome salt deep blue-black toblack tints of great fastness against light and in milling. They areinsoluble in alcohol, ether, and benzene, soluble in concentratedsulfuric acid with a darkgreen coloration, from which solution the freecolor-acid separates out by addition of water.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The new asymmetrical coloring-matters which can be obtained from onemolecular proportion of naphthalenediamindisulfo-acid 1.8.3.6, onemolecule of paranitrodiazoben- .zene and one molecule of another diazobody,

such as paradiazobenzenesulfo-acid, forming black powders of a bronzeluster, easily soluble in water with a dark-violet to dark-bluecoloration, insoluble in alcohol, ether and benzene, soluble inconcentrated sulfuric acid In testimony whereof I have hereunto set witha dark-green coloration from which somy hand in the presence of twosubscribing lution the free c0101 acid separates out by adwitnesses.

dition of water, and they produce on wool in J AKOB SCHMID. 5 an acidbath 01 on a mordant of a chrome Witnesses:

salt, deep blue-black to black tints of great GEORGE GIFFORD,

fastness against light and in milling. N. HENZI.

